Liana Millu (1914–2005)
Auteur de La fumée de Birkenau
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Liana Millu
Dalla Liguria ai campi di sterminio 1 exemplaire
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- Nom canonique
- Millu, Liana
- Nom légal
- Millu, Liana
- Autres noms
- Nàila (Pseudonyme)
- Date de naissance
- 1914-12-21
- Date de décès
- 2005-02-06
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Italie
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Italie
- Lieu de naissance
- Pise, Italie
- Lieu du décès
- Gênes, Italie
- Lieux de résidence
- Gênes, Italie
- Professions
- Journaliste
Institutrice
Gouvernante
Romancière - Organisations
- Ecoles primaires, Montobradoni, Italie
- Courte biographie
- Liana Millu est née dans une écrivaine , résistante italienne d’origine juive, survivante de l’Holocauste.
Née en 1914 dans une famille juive de Pise, en Italie, elle est élevée par ses grands-parents. Avant la guerre 4 ,elle exerce en tant que journaliste et institutrice. Les lois raciales fascistes l'exclut de ses études et sa profession.
En 1943, elle rejoint la résistance italienne basée à Gênes. Elle est arrêtée en 1944 et déportée au camps d'Auschwitz-Birkenau et de Ravensbrück.
Elle en revient en mai 1945 et s'installe à Gênes ou elle devient enseignante et écrivaine.
Son mémoire, Il fumo di Birkenau (La fumée au-dessus de Birkenau), est publié pour la première fois en 1947 mais ne suscite pas l’intérêt du public malgré le fait qu'il soit l'un des plus anciens témoignages deJuifs déportés dans les camps de la mort nazis. Une nouvelle publication en 1986 rencontre un large public Il est alors traduit dans plus de quinze langues.
Les autres livres de Millu comprennent le roman I ponti di Schwerin (Les ponts de Schwerin, 1978); La camicia di Josepha (La chemise de Josepha, 1988), une collection d'histoires et la fiction Dalla Liguria ai campi di steriminio (De la Ligurie aux camps d’extermination, 1980). Son travail est inclus dans l'anthologie italienne des Écrivains liguriens du XXe siècle.
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Il Fumo di Birkenau par Liana Millu
Il fumo di Birkenau è il primo libro di Liana Millu fu pubblicato nel 1947 poco dopo il suo ritorno dalla prigionia nel campo di concentramento nazista di Auschwitz - Birkenau. (fonte: Google Books)
Liana Millu was an Jewish Italian Partisan who was arrested in 1944 and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Of the 672 people in her transport, 57 lived to return home. "Smoke Over Birkenau" is one of the few testimonies to record the experience of women in the Nazi concentration camps. The six vignettes in this slim volume tell the stories of some of the women who were the most memorable to Liana. The continuation of quotidian "human" concerns in the midst of such inhumanity is awe-inspiring: birthdays, jealousy, generosity, greed, recipes, clothes, birth, and of course, death. The details of life in the women's barracks are amazing, frightening, humbling, and engrossing.
The inmates often struggled with the big question: where was God? At one point, Liana recalls herself asking:
"Whatever will become of me? I wondered, the mud splattering at my feet. Whatever will become of me? And of Lili, and all the rest? It wasn't so much the fear of death that pained me, but rather the galling futility of this existence suspended between two voids. Here today, gone tomorrow. What could be the point of all this suffering, bounded by parentheses, in the midst of nothing? Was it possible some God was looking down on me from above? Why did he put me here in the first place if I was simply to suffer and vanish without a trace? Had he no mercy, this God?"
Lotti, another inmate who chose to become a member of the Auschwitz Puffkommando (brothel), was bemoaning the rejection by her sister and fellow-inmate Gustine over her choice:
"She was always dragging God's name into it, Gustine was. It became an obsession with her. 'God won't forsake his creatures. God knows what he's doing. God can't allow injustice to triumph.' And meanwhile the crematorium just keeps puffing away and ashes are dropping on my head."
Most of the vignettes end with ashes. Yet Millu gives life again to the many women who joined the columns of smoke rising from the crematoria of Birkenau.
(JAF)… (plus d'informations)
The inmates often struggled with the big question: where was God? At one point, Liana recalls herself asking:
"Whatever will become of me? I wondered, the mud splattering at my feet. Whatever will become of me? And of Lili, and all the rest? It wasn't so much the fear of death that pained me, but rather the galling futility of this existence suspended between two voids. Here today, gone tomorrow. What could be the point of all this suffering, bounded by parentheses, in the midst of nothing? Was it possible some God was looking down on me from above? Why did he put me here in the first place if I was simply to suffer and vanish without a trace? Had he no mercy, this God?"
Lotti, another inmate who chose to become a member of the Auschwitz Puffkommando (brothel), was bemoaning the rejection by her sister and fellow-inmate Gustine over her choice:
"She was always dragging God's name into it, Gustine was. It became an obsession with her. 'God won't forsake his creatures. God knows what he's doing. God can't allow injustice to triumph.' And meanwhile the crematorium just keeps puffing away and ashes are dropping on my head."
Most of the vignettes end with ashes. Yet Millu gives life again to the many women who joined the columns of smoke rising from the crematoria of Birkenau.
(JAF)… (plus d'informations)
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